Chorus: O suitably attired in leather boots Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom Whence by what way how purposed art thou come To this well-nightingaled vicinity? My object in inquiring is to know. But if you happen to be deaf and dumb And do not understand a word I say, Nod with your hand to signify as much.Alcmaeon: I journeyed hither a Boeotian road.Chorus: Sailing on horseback or with feet for oars?Alcmaeon: Plying by turns my partnership of legs.Chorus: Beneath a shining or a rainy Zeus?Alcmaeon: Mud's sister, not himself, adorns my shoes.Chorus: To learn your name would not displease me much.Alcmaeon: Not all that men desire do they attain.

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